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Full Summary: "Honestly, I think that I'm afraid of being happy." she stared into my eyes. "Because whenever I'm happy, there's always something in my heart that shatters." she smiled that beautiful tragic smile of hers. "I think it's the knowledge that in the end, I'll be the one left broken."

Pairings: MinatoxSakura

Warnings; Ocs

...What?

Eien chuckled, letting go of Sakura. She fell on the ground with a thud.

Bastard!

He stood up, ignoring how she cursed him to high heaven and low hell. Turning his back to her, he waved his hand. A rip appeared in the air.

How did he- Oh, dear Kami.

The rip apparently opened a view to Konoha

Sakura gulped. It had been years since she last saw her beloved home. The streets bustling with people from merchants to shinobi to children playing. The sun shone high in the sky, the birds were happily chirping and everyone appeared to content.

Instinctively, her gaze (yes! she can move her eyes!) turned to the Hokage Mountain wanting to see the calm and determined faces of those great shinobi's who all died protecting Konoha.

To see Tsunade's and Naruto's face.

But to her great disappointment and confusion, only the faces of the three first hokage's stared back at her.

Wait...What?

That's when she noticed that it wasn't Konoha. Well, yeah, it was Konoha but not the one she knew. It was the Konoha before the Kyuubi attack. The main street still didn't exist, the structure was ancient and even the people's clothes were old-fashioned.

But why was Eien showing her this?

He chuckled again. "I saw your life, cherry blossom. Tragic, short and mesmerizing."

She scowled (yes! she could make expressions!) at the pun on her namesake. Everyone knew that haiku on cherry blossoms. Some people, including Sai, liked to tease her with it.

Naruto got furious every time someone mentioned it. He hated it when people hinted on her death by using her name as an excuse or insult. Enemies suffered greatly for it.

"It was...touching, to say at least. Cried buckets of tears." he fake sniffed and Sakura just knew that he was wiping a fake tear away. She growled (yes! she could growl!).

But just what did he want from her?

"I am getting to it. Patience, little one, is a virtue." he tutted.

Eien was lucky, she got a fist with the patience of a sage! Yeah, right. And Naruto hated orange.

He laughed again. "Anyways, I've decided to give you a second chance. But," he raised one finger. Even if she couldn't see it, Sakura just felt it. "With a twist, because nothing good comes without a sacrifice. And your death and broken love with the demon-"

She inwardly snarled. Nobody was allowed to call Naruto a demon. And certainly not an idiot whose stick was so deep up his ass he could probably feel it in his throat.

"- are not counted as a sacrifice. Wow, I think I can learn many insults from you, little witch." he genuinely sounded surprised... and impressed. Sakura smirked. "But where was I? Oh, right, you're given a chance to avoid all the misery that happened in your timeline. You have a free pass to do anything you want."

Sakura's thoughts flashed to Sasuke, Naruto, Tsunade, Kakashi and O- Stop. Not going there. No, no. Just no way was she going to think about him.

"Painful, confusing memories, right?"

She refused to answer.

"As you wish. So, like I said, you're going to travel back in time but unlike other time-travelers -yes there were others before you- yours will have a twist to it. Why? Because I wanted more amusement. What sort of twist? You'll notice in due time."

Sakura got annoyed. He answered her questions before she even thought of them.

"For now, you can do what you want and live a new life. Fall in love, kill, make major changes, save lives, mess with people. I don't care."

Just when hope began blossoming in her chest, it got immediately squashed when he continued. "Just know, that in the end, you'll return to me."

Sakura knew that even if she had he choice, she'd accept his conditions. It was a too beautiful and tempting offer to refuse. But that didn't mean that her heart didn't clench in fear when she heard his next words.

"For eternity."

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"Breathe, Ino, breathe and calm the fuck down. I'm trying to get us out of here."

"I can't, Sakura! Don't you see that its too late. Were trapped with no means to make it out alive. Were gonna die! How can I calm down when were gonna die?"

*Slap*

.

"Sakura?"

"Hm."

"Thank you for calming me down."

"It was nothing."

.

"..."

"..."

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"But that doesn't mean I'm gonna let you go so easily when go back to the camp. You still slapped me."

"I'm counting on it."

Answers to your reviews.

diridiri: You'll see who's Eien when the story progresses.

ByakuyaxRukiaKuchikifan: 'Just when he opened his lips, she succumbed to darkness.' Just when he opened his mouth to speak, she fell asleep.

And Minato was the only one who knew what her lips had mouthed- even if he didn't understand why she had said them.

"You held your promise..."

Before she died, Naruto promised Sakura that she wasn't going to die but just sleep and wake up tomorrow. And he'll be there when she wakes up.

"You're not going to die!" I said, resolute to not give up. "You're...You're going to sleep. Yeah, you're going to sleep and wake up tomorrow. And when you open your eyes, I'll be right here. Believe it!"

He said 'believe it' and in Naruto's language that's a promise.

When Sakura woke up to Minato, she thought it was Naruto and refers to his promise. Yes, it was Minato she kissed but due to the fact that Naruto grows up to be like him, Sakura doesn't see the difference. She died, anybody would be too disoriented to notice little details like whiskers or tanner skin.

Eien = Eternity.

Notice the pun?

I wanted to make it a bit more funny since this story (later on) will be filled with drama. Hopefully, I did well.

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